There is nothing the women in your life {this mum included! hint! hint! } would appreciate more this Christmas than the gift of wellness coupled with a whole day of rest + relaxation. Having been busy all-year long + being way too preoccupied with endless diapering duties + daily household chores that we surprisingly never seem to run out of.

Give her this gift for Christmas + I am sure she will highly appreciate it! Now, I wonder who’d give me one of these?

Rain showers the past afternoons is a clear sign that we are to expect a rainy weekend + nothing really makes me down + lazy but a rainy day. I am only too glad, that, albeit my day lacked the essential amount of sunshine today, I have enough time to rest + do nothing, taking advantage of the cold December weather.

My week in retrospect:

the little man was down with a bit of coughs + colds but taking meds is impossible as usual. I only managed to have him drink the antibiotic prescribed by his pedia once, + with a lot of struggling + drama on the side. Am just glad he’s doing quite well now + we even managed to go out to meet my College best friends yesterday {more about that soon}

don’t you just wish you had a quieter bunch of neighbors? My rowdy next-door neighbors successfully managed to wake the napping little man on several occasions now + just last night, our usually peaceful Saturday night was disturbed by someone next door shouting to her heart’s content. Intrigued by whatever their watching on the tellie that inspired the hollers + the cheers, we surfed the channels + found the live telecast of the match between international athlete, David Beckham’s LA Galaxy + our very own Azkals. I had no idea it was on that night. Am not much of a football fan but it is not everyday that you’ll see superstars playing with our very own athletes, right? We ended up watching the game, too, in a much quieter fashion, I tell you, with the little man watching with too much interest as well. My budding little soccer player{?} ^_^ Even if the Azkals lost by 5 points, even Beckham admitted that is was not an easy win.

I didn’t think I have shared our new nest here before, so I am showing you some parts of our new {rented} humble house, I hope you will indulge this mum

the stairs leading to the upstairs bedroom

The 2-storey house is located in a compound {located in the same city where we used to live} that housed another unit much like ours beside it + a 2-car garage in front. What I loved first about this house is that it is all blue. All the walls + doors, too, are painted in my favorite shade for my little man {yep, he has no say in it just yet!}. The wrought-iron gates + fences are also in the same shade. I also love that all windows are screened to make sure the little one is safe from mosquitoes.

For a limited time only, be mesmerized as Candy Corner brings to life the enchanting + magical world of Wonka through the The Wonka Imaginarium, an enchanted factory that harvests dreams + turn them into candies.

This event is a four-day exhibit that highlights Wonka candies {imagine seeing Wonka candies anywhere you look!} + allows every child in all of us to bring our fondest candy fantasies to life! Step into the bewitching world of larger than life bugs + talking trees {that also exchanged high-fives with my little man!}, brush up on your spells with a purple witch + search for the rainbow, the dream that makes the happiest of all candies.

The Wonka Imaginarium is the first of its kind in the Philippines, + we’re happy to be doing this in time for the holiday season. More than just giving everyone a chance to get to know more about Wonka candies, our main goal is to give people of all ages a great avenue to feed their imagination + to find a different, unique activity for the whole family to share this Christmas. ~ Ricky Andres, Candy Corner Philippines ~ President

Wonka is well-known candy brand that uses licensed materials from Roald Dahl’s Charlie + the Chocolate Factory. Its distinct packaging, not to mention its colorful taste, made it a shoo-in as Candy Corner’s flagship brand. Popular Candy Corner products Nerds + Pixy Stix are actually from the Wonka brand.

Candy Corner is the first Philippine outlet to combine traditional packaged + novelty sweets with the concept of having customers choose + combine their own selections of treats, has also consistently provided chocolates + candies to satisfy the local demand for international confectionery brands over the years. Expanding from a single branch in 1996 into numerous branches across the country over the years is solid proof that this formula worked for them well + made them a household name.

I will be back with a detailed post on how our Wonka Imaginarium experience went ^_^

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